Sporting Digest: Athletics

ROBERT WEIR, the 32-year-old former Commonwealth hammer champion, will make a comeback in a triangular international against Hungary and Italy at Portsmouth on 5 June, after pursuing a career in American football. He will be competing in the discus in his first Great Britain appearance since the 1984 Olympic Games.

BRITISH FIELD ATHLETES SQUAD (Triangular international v Hungary and Italy, Portsmouth, 5 June): MEN: High jump: D Grant (Haringey); B Reilly (Corby). Long jump: S Phillips (Birchfield); F Salle (Belgrave). Pole vault: N Buckfield (Crawley); N Winter (Shaftesbury). Triple jump: J Edwards (Gateshead); J Golley (Thames Valley). Discus: G Smith (Solihull); R Weir (Birchfield). Hammer: M Jones (Shaftesbury), P Vivian (Thames Valley). Javelin: S Backley (Cambridge); M Hill (Leeds). Shot: P Edwards (Belgrave); S Whyte (Luton). WOMEN: Long jump: Y Idowu (Essex); F May (Derby). High jump: D Marti (Bromley); J Jennings (Essex). Triple jump: C Henry (Shaftesbury); R Kirby (Hounslow). Discus: J McKernan (Lisburn); S Andrews (Essex). Javelin: S Gibson (Notts); S Holroyd (Sale). Shot: M Augee (Bromley); M Lynes (Croydon).